CHICAGO — For two decades, a father and son duo have quietly collected and repaired over 70 violins used by victims and survivors of the Holocaust. “I opened the violin,” Amnon Weinstein said, ...

In Skylight Theatre's latest show, Fiddler on the Roof, perhaps the most powerful piece of storytelling is truly instrumental. Two violins, played both on and off stage, survived the Holocaust. They ...

David Gross knew right away what he had to do. In November 2018 the executive director of the Reading Symphony Orchestra was invited to visit Fort Wayne, Ind. The symphony’s music director, Andrew ...

One by one, they arrived in a Tel Aviv violin maker’s studio: broken, scratched and disfigured, as damaged as their former owners, but also cherished before the tragedy of the Holocaust irrevocably ...

The 38 violins, some worn and all silent, displayed at the University of Tennessee Downtown Gallery brought tears to my eyes this week. It's not the instruments themselves — though some are ...

In two studies, she has shown that professional violinists can’t tell the difference between the so-called “Old Italian” violins and newly made ones. “Strads are amazing instruments. They have ...

If you’ve ever watched an orchestra perform, you might have noticed a sea of violinists front and centre, bows rippling up and down in unison. They’re usually split into two sections – first violins ...